Kolkata: From airway inflammation to increased susceptibility to respiratory infection and reduced lung function, pollution is taking an increasing toll on lung health of individuals.Doctors said children whose lungs are yet to get developed are the most vulnerable to ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Mutton prices in Kolkata have climbed to Rs 1,100-1,200 per kg at several meat shops across the city following a fresh spike in wholesale livestock prices that traders attribute to a wide demand-supply gap.Retailers across the city said ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state urban development & municipal affairs department is taking up stern action against filling up of water bodies and illegal building construction in all 144 wards under Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).Minister Agnimitra Paul on Saturday received several ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Transport Department has drawn up a plan to realign the operation of toto, or e-rickshaw, services across urban local bodies (ULBs), restricting them primarily to last-mile connectivity and keeping them off major roads and highways. ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 30-year-old woman was molested at a night club on Park Street in the early hours of Sunday. A venue employee was also involved in allegedly assaulting the woman’s fiance when the latter tried to intervene, the woman ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 38-year-old woman was arrested and CID found her handbag packed with pistols, ammunition and cash in Ashoknagar on Sunday, exposing what investigators suspect could be an interstate arms trafficking network.“Dressed in a salwar-kameez with her head covered ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: There is a flux among bus operators struggling to cope with rising diesel prices. After the route 37 (Dhakuria-Howrah) buses tried it a few weeks ago, before reversing the decision, route 237 (Birati-Babughat) buses have started charging extra ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 40-year-old woman was arrested for leading a robbery in which the victim had been tied up at her own house. Cops have recovered the stolen gold jewellery worth lakhs within days of the robbery in the Rajabagan ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 19-year-old youth and his friend were allegedly ambushed, abducted, and tortured by a group of men over a grudge in the early hours of Friday, before being stripped and filmed. The victim, a resident of Kabi Tirtha ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal can become the first state to have a Special Investigation Agency (SIA) modelled on National Investigation Agency (NIA). The proposal was among several discussed at a law-and-order review meeting chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah and ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Gujarat will keep bringing investments to Bengal, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday while virtually laying the foundation stone for Amul’s Rs 700-crore integrated dairy complex. The plant, to come up at Sankrail Food Park in ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a customer to steal gemstones worth nearly Rs 5 lakh from a jewelry shop in Behala on Thursday. The accused, 40-year-old Prabhat Debnath, was tracked down to his residence ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Considering the advanced stage of pregnancy and “the availability of obstetric facilities in jail”, Calcutta High Court on July 16 granted interim bail to a Mominpur woman arrested for possession of drugs worth Rs 63 crore till Sept ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court, in an urgent hearing on Sunday, ordered a status quo on the demolition of the five-storey Amtala building in South 24 Parganas which serves as Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s Diamond Harbour constituency office, until the ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaSalanpur (West Burdwan): Protests erupted in West Burdwan’s Salanpur block on Sunday after locals belonging to the Bauri community alleged they were being prevented from entering a Durga temple in Karmakar Para of Athora gram panchayat.Community members gathered outside ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As the city favourites squared up with the dark horses who showed a late burst of brilliance, threatening to halt the blue-and-white brigade’s march to glory, Kolkata split, almost right down the middle, to root for the finalists ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Loyalties changed, colours were switched and heroes altered as some of the big teams tumbled in the run-up to the World Cup final, swelling support for Argentina’s relatively less fancied opponent on Sunday. Fluid loyalty shored up Spain’s ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Trinamool and NCPI took sharply divergent positions on the BJP-led NDA’s legislative agenda on Saturday, with the Mamata Banerjee camp urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to halt two proposed bills, even as NCPI pledged support to all govt ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was literally the Bijoya Dashami of World Cup football on Sunday but the magic of Lionel Messi or LM 10 and Argentina helped traders fill their coffers not just at Bidhan Market, but even the official stores ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was time Bengal, once “a global beacon of Indian consciousness”, was made capable of awakening the consciousness of the entire world, despite recent efforts to alienate the state from mainstream culture, said Union home minister Amit Shah ...
20 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt plans to buy or rent special tree spade machines to transplant trees instead of cutting them down.Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said the machine can lift a full tree with its roots ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Jaya Ahsaan’s “Aajo Ardhangini“ (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising. While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Restoring sewage flow into the East Kolkata Wetlands is essential to revive small indigenous fish and strengthen wetland fish farmers’ livelihoods, farmers and experts said at a workshop organised by CGIAR-IWMI and implemented by the Society for Creative ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Forty-nine of 66 Kolkata Police personnel, transferred to Bengal Police in 2016 in what many described as a “punishment posting”, would return to their parent cadre after nearly 10 years, stated an order issued from Nabanna on Friday.Those ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: To end dangerous track crossings, Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division has sanctioned seven new low-height subways beneath live railway tracks. This will also overcome land acquisition hurdles that often delay construction of road overbridges and underbridges. The subways will ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaHaldia: In a tragic attempt to save each other from a live wire, three members of a family, including a 12-year-old boy, were electrocuted on Saturday evening at Kumarpur village in Haldia.The incident took place around 7 pm when ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Crude bombs were hurled at former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh’s house early on Sunday, hours after his son Tirthankar Ghosh was paraded by police through parts of Sodepur-Panihati.Police said masked assailants arrived on motorcycles around 1.30am, lobbed bombs ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Jaya Ahsaan’s "Aajo Ardhangini" (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising. While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Army chief General Manoj Pande on Sunday said Kolkata and the entire northeast had the tremendous potential to develop into a major defence manufacturing hub, and urged the state’s industrialists and academics to work together to strengthen ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city and south Bengal remained cloudy and received drizzles on Saturday. Moderate rain is expected in Kolkata and surrounding districts on Sunday, while north Bengal is expected to be lashed by heavy rainfall on Sunday. The monsoon ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A lawyer has lodged a police complaint, saying two men attacked her with a knife outside the Patuli Police Station, demanding that she should withdraw cases linked to former Trinamool councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta and party youth member Sourav Ghosh.
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Jaya Ahsaan’s "Aajo Ardhangini" (AA) marks a significant moment in cross-border cinema, serving as a major collaboration featuring a Bangladeshi star following the July 2024 uprising.While eased visa norms have allowed artistic movement between Kolkata and Dhaka to ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From Nandan to Baguiati and from district headquarters to subdivision towns, Bengal is gearing up for a statewide football carnival as the state govt prepares to screen the Fifa World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on giant ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: From multiplexes to open-air arenas, from sports cafes to nightclubs, multiple venues across Indian footballing mecca Kolkata are decking up for the clash of footballing titans as reigning champion Argentina takes on European champion Spain in the 2026 ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The soccer-crazy city has surrendered to football’s oldest ritual — choosing sides — as the countdown to the Fifa World Cup final between Argentina and Spain enters its final hours. From clubs and tea stalls to offices and ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaIchhapur: While Argentina supporters across Bengal are planning community screenings and late-night celebrations for Sunday’s World Cup final, Ichhapur tea-seller Shib Shankar Patra will stick to a ritual he believes has already brought Lionel Messi luck once.The 59-year-old, whose ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 19-year-old resident of Merlin Ultadanga survived a fall from a 12th-floor corridor window of the 13-storey Block III early on Saturday as he landed on the terrace balcony of a ninth-floor flat instead of plunging to the ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An 85-year-old man died after he fell off the seventh-floor corridor window of a 15-storey residential building inside a housing complex at Belgachhia Milk Colony on Saturday afternoon. Arun Kumar Basu lived on the seventh floor.Security guards and ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Lok Bhavan, Bengal, has issued an advisory, warning people against a fraudster allegedly impersonating the governor as well senior officials, and calling dignitaries, govt officials and citizens from a mobile number, +91 98365 40163.The governor’s office has urged ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops from the Jorasanko Police Station visited several parts of Burrabazar on Friday evening and instructed traders, shopkeepers and hawkers to immediately remove plastic sheets used to cover their goods, clear encroachments from pavements and carriageways and dismantle ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has adopted advanced technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, sensors capable of reading hand gestures, acoustically designed hallways and sound concentrators to make the Museum of Word.Also known as Shabdalok, ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on the state’s ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Eastern India is poised to become the next major growth centre for India’s city gas distribution (CGD) sector, industry leaders said at the 14th City Gas Distribution Conference-cum-Exhibition in Kolkata.Addressing the conference, Jayant Narayan Das, member of the ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata/Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the govt is committed to making the country’s borders impregnable through the concept of “smart borders” and announced that the project to fortify India’s borders with a quadrangular security grid ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A three-and-half-a-year-old female Beagle, Khushi, who swallowed an earbud and suffered immense abdominal pain for about a week, underwent a 20-minute surgery to remove the foreign object lodged in its stomach. Veterinary doctors stated that the canineis stable ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A powerful explosion ripped through the ground floor of a four-storey residential building in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport on Friday evening after a crude bomb exploded.Police later recovered two more bombs from a room in the building. Preliminary ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee on Saturday made a surprise visit to RG Kar Hospital and expressed strong dissatisfaction over the cleanliness, inadequate management and alleged broker syndicates at the hospital.Mukherjee visited the hospital around 12.30 pm and ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has set up a Special Task Force (STF-D) to identify, trace and process overstaying foreign nationals and illegal migrants in the city, acting on directions from the Union home ministry and the Bengal home and hill ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: Fifteen-year-old national-level shooter Damayanti Sen, whose disappearance from her Howrah home on Thursday morning triggered widespread concern and viral social media appeals, was found on Saturday morning near Ramkrishnapur Ghat. But her return, as puzzling as her disappearance, ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: State urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Pal on Saturday appealed to citizens not to fall prey to a racket that collects extortion or cut money in the name of state cabinet ministers, including herself. “If someone ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The proposed Union cabinet reshuffle is likely to see several Bengal BJP heavyweights secure important berths.Ahead of the expansion — expected after Parliament’s monsoon session — the names of several Bengal netas have started doing the rounds. The ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A five-storey building in Amtala, South 24 Parganas, which serves as the local party office of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, was partially demolished with bulldozers by the district administration on Saturday following an unauthorised construction complaint.Banerjee denied ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on the state’s ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A poignant cinematic tribute to legendary director Mrinal Sen and a joint triumph by three child artists marked Bengal’s presence at the 72nd National Film Awards announced on Friday. The state’s creative legacy swept honours across generations, celebrating ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaBehrampore: Railway authorities have suspended gateman Anup Karmakar and his superior, permanent way inspector (PWI) Koushik Mal, following Friday’s level-crossing accident near Karnasubarna. Police have taken Karmakar into seven days’ custody.The accident occurred on Friday morning after the Up ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Enforcement Directorate has zeroed in on alleged discrepancies amounting to Rs 164 crore in one of Trinamool’s bank accounts which are under the central investigating agency’s scanner. The ED has written to the bank seeking explanations for the ...
19 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The narcotic cell of the detective department seized hydroponic ganja, valued at over Rs 2 crore in the illegal, following late-night raids on Thursday, first on a guest house at Tagore Park and then, a home in Tiljala. ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to reconstitute its town vending committee, including representatives from registered associations of street vendors in New Town in the committee for better management. Officials said the process was underway ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: An Afghan national, Jamil Khan, was arrested from Bhowanipore for allegedly living illegally in the city for five years, using forged ID documents. Khan Police said Khan arrived in Kolkata in Feb 2021 on a temporary three-month visa ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt is working on an industrial policy, including a series of incentives, which it’s likely to unveil by Aug 15, state finance minister Swapan Dasgupta said on Saturday, adding that the govt would acquire land for ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Group is set to inspect sites in West Burdwan’s Durgapur and Panagarh for a semiconductor manufacturing unit, Bengal commerce and industry minister Tapas Roy said on Saturday. Roy was speaking on the sidelines of the ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Arrested Trinamool neta Tirthankar Ghosh was paraded by cops through parts of Sodepur and Panihati on Saturday as part of their investigation, with residents shouting “chor, chor” (“thief, thief”) at him.Tirthankar, a CIC member of Panihati municipality and ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have launched a hunt for two bike-borne accused who snatched a premium smartphone from a pedestrian on E M Bypass early on Thursday morning. According to the FIR, the incident occurred near Sanjha Chulha restaurant in the ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Works of Indian masters, including Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, MF Hussain, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Chintamani Kar, Sunil Das, Ganesh Haloi, Jogen Chowdhury, Paresh Maity, Kishen Khanna and Manu Parekh, will go under the hammer in what is being billed ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaHOWRAH: National-level shooter Damayanti Sen, who had been missing since Thursday afternoon, was found safe in Howrah on Saturday.The 15-year-old, who was recently selected for national team trials, had left her home on Thursday to buy household items but ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A demolition drive targeting a Trinamool Congress party office linked to the party's national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee began in Amtala on Saturday, with district authorities alleging that the five-storey building had been constructed ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal STF has set up a State Terror Monitoring Grid to track, detect, and break up extremist networks across the state. The grid will work as a central system for counter-terror operations, keeping real-time digital records related to ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Sabyasachi Laskar, the Bengal topper in NEET (UG), the national entrance test to medical colleges, has decided to forgo a career in medicine and instead, study computer science engineering. Sabyasachi, who said his ultimate goal was hardware research ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Congress functionary from the port area, Mohammad Mukhtar, was arrested on Friday in connection with alleged violence during Muharram in Metiabruz.Police sources said Nadial Police Station had registered a suo motu case after the incident and later ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Police have started lodging zero FIRs in cyber fraud cases to allow quick freezing of the money trail.In a case where a Cossipore resident filed a complaint, Baguiati police filed Zero FIR under relevant sections of BNS. The ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Refusing to “brush aside” the testimony of a man who, as a 7-year-old, witnessed his father, uncles and aunts poison and kill his mother in 2006, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday reversed the acquittal of the Diamond ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Haridevpur resident, Dipojjwal Maity (36), died after a heat goods vehicle hit his bike near the Taratala flyover on Thursday. His pillion rider, Suman Haldar, was admitted to Vidyasagar Hospital with injuries. Both had their helmets on, ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A BJP functionary accused of extortion got “egg therapy” on Thursday after police arrested him for allegedly occupying a rented apartment in a premium New Town housing complex without paying rent and intimidating its elderly owner for years. ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former KMC MMiC Tarak Singh’s son filed an FIR after Singh’s car was attacked outside Behala Police Station on Wednesday. The complaint alleges unidentified people hurled eggs, bricks, mud and stones, damaging the vehicle and injuring Singh. Police ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Armed with eggs, a group of people protested outside former Rajarhat-New Town MLA Tapas Chatterjee’s home on Friday, shouting “chor, chor” as he prepared to join rebel TMC neta Ritabrata Banerjee’s camp. Police cleared the protesters, after which ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 28-year-old youth, Gaurav Choubey, was arrested for allegedly cheating college aspirants by promising them admission to Maharaja Srischandra College.Choubey, a resident of Gopal Chandra Bose Lane in Sinthee, was picked up following a complaint by an 18-year-old ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education on Friday issued a notice to the heads of affiliated schools, asking them to restrict students from bringing mobile phones to classrooms.The notice, signed by council president Mosiur Rahaman Sardar, stated, ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaBankura: Bengal govt’s upcoming incentive policy for industry will be linked to the quantum of employment generated by an industrial unit, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Friday.“Incentives will depend on how many jobs a unit creates. We want ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The ED on Friday filed its second supplementary charge sheet against Sona Pappu in the land grab and money laundering case it is probing, accusing him of embezzling around Rs 38 crore.In the nearly 100-page charge sheet, the ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaBehrampore: Four schoolchildren aged between seven and nine were killed when a passenger train rammed a pool car ferrying seven students at the Gobindapur railway gate near Karnasubarna station in Murshidabad on Friday morning. A 65-year-old cyclist, too, died ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Political flux continued to unsettle the Mamata Banerjee camp of Trinamool on Friday as former MLA and Bongaon functionary Biswajit Das and former Rajarhat-New Town MLA Tapas Chatterjee switched sides to meet Ritabrata Banerjee, while former MLA Rajib ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state govt is aiming to build a sustainable tourism economy by blending Bengal’s rich cultural, spiritual and intellectual heritage, state tourism minister Shankar Ghosh said at the inaugural session of the Maitri Cultural Economy Samiti (MCES) West ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaSiliguri: An illicit affair, a carefully laid trap and a gruesome attempt to erase a man’s identity — Bagdogra police have unravelled a murder conspiracy that ended with a Bihar man’s beheaded body being dumped in a north Bengal ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Citing the development of Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar Temple as a model, state govt has approached Centre, seeking financial assistance under the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD) scheme for the development of Gangasagar into a world-class religious ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal govt on Friday appointed Debaranjan Bandyopadhyay as special public prosecutor in the 2012 murder case of Barun Biswas, the schoolteacher who was shot dead for raising his voice against rapes in Sutia, North 24 Parganas.The development ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaHowrah: A 15-year-old national-level rifle shooter from central Howrah, who was due to appear for national squad trials, has gone missing after leaving home on Rathayatra morning to buy milk and other household items. Police have launched a multi-district ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The search for 15-year-old Damayanti Sen, a national-level shooter and a resident of Umacharan Bhattacharya Lane, entered its second day on Friday, with police intensifying efforts after CCTV footage showed her at Howrah railway station shortly after she ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Self-Help Groups (SHGs) working in the mid-day meal scheme in Bengal schools will be placed under Iskcon, the Bengal govt said in a notification on Friday. It, however, did not offer any clarity on whether eggs will ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaNew Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday said record voter turnout in the recent assembly elections reflected the trust of Indians in the electoral process and the strength of the country’s democracy. He also thanked voters for ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Former Trinamool MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik were on Friday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal as BJP candidates, completing a swift political turnaround days after switching sides.This coincided with ...
18 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Alipore court has asked Farman Ansari, son of former Trinamool councillor Rehmat Ansari, to appear before a court in Mumbai by July 28 and seek legal relief after he was arrested by a Mumbai police team under ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a medical achievement that challenges conventional timelines for congenital heart interventions, a multidisciplinary team at a pvt hospital in Kolkata has successfully performed a complex, definitive corrective surgery on a seven-year-old girl born with reversed major blood ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Developing and nurturing bright young minds is crucial to build an inclusive knowledge-driven country where innovation should always be the backbone of India, Union minister of state for Education and minister of state for the Development of Northeastern ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday reserved its order on a plea seeking interim stay on the speaker’s appointment of Ritabrata Banerjee as leader of opposition in the Bengal assembly after arguments concluded before a division bench of justices ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday extended Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s interim protection from coercive action in the Signgate case for one month on the grounds that the MP will attend summons and cooperate with the investigation. Justice Kaushik ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday promised the “strictest possible action” against those responsible for the Murshidabad train tragedy that claimed three lives, including those of two school students, while asserting that negligence in the discharge ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin prepares for her Kolkata visit, the city’s literary community is revisiting the shadows of 2007, when she was forced to leave amid intense communal protests. The discourse reveals complex layers; while many authors ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A week after public access to the 136-year-old Gouripur Jame Masjid inside the Kolkata airport was suspended over security concerns, the Bankra mosque committee on Thursday called for a peaceful protest after Friday prayers, even as the airport ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaSILIGURI: A gruesome murder allegedly orchestrated over an extramarital affair was cracked by Bagdogra police within 48 hours with the arrest of five persons, including the victim's wife and her alleged lover. Police said the accused allegedly conspired to ...
17 July 2026 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Security has been deployed around Bankra mosque following a call for a peaceful protest by Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind's West Bengal president Siddiqullah Chowdhury after authorities stopped access to the mosque, located within Kolkata airport premises, citing security concerns.Prayers at ...
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